How do I get the YouTube video ID from a URL?

Question

I want to get the v=id from YouTube’s URL with JavaScript (no jQuery, pure JavaScript).

Example YouTube URL formats

http://www.youtube.c

Answer 1

Well, the way to do it with simple parsing would be: get everything starting after the first = sign to the first & sign.

I think they had a similiar answer here:

Parsing a Vimeo ID using JavaScript?

Answer 2

Java Code: (Works for all the URLs:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg&feature=feedrec_grec_index
2. http://www.youtube.com/user/IngridMichaelsonVEVO#p/a/u/1/QdK8U-VIH_o
3. http://youtube.googleapis.com/v/0zM3nApSvMg?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0
4. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg#t=0m10s
5. http://www.youtube.com/embed/0zM3nApSvMg?rel=0"
6. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg
7. http://youtu.be/0zM3nApSvMg
8. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg/
9. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=8UVNT4wvIGY

)

    String url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zM3nApSvMg&feature=feedrec_grec_index";

    String regExp = "/.*(?:youtu.be\\/|v\\/|u/\\w/|embed\\/|watch\\?.*&?v=)";
    Pattern compiledPattern = Pattern.compile(regExp);
    Matcher matcher = compiledPattern.matcher(url);
    if(matcher.find()){
        int start = matcher.end();
        System.out.println("ID : " + url.substring(start, start+11));

    }

For DailyMotion:

String url = "http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4xvnz_the-funny-crash-compilation_fun";

    String regExp = "/video/([^_]+)/?";
    Pattern compiledPattern = Pattern.compile(regExp);
    Matcher matcher = compiledPattern.matcher(url);
    if(matcher.find()){
        String match = matcher.group();
        System.out.println("ID : " + match.substring(match.lastIndexOf("/")+1));

    }

Answer 3

Slightly stricter version:

^https?://(?:www\.)?youtu(?:\.be|be\.com)/(?:\S+/)?(?:[^\s/]*(?:\?|&)vi?=)?([^#?&]+)

Tested on:

http://www.youtube.com/user/dreamtheater#p/u/1/oTJRivZTMLs
https://youtu.be/oTJRivZTMLs?list=PLToa5JuFMsXTNkrLJbRlB--76IAOjRM9b
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=youtu.be
https://youtu.be/oTJRivZTMLs
http://youtu.be/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://www.youtube.com/ytscreeningroom?v=oTJRivZTMLs
http://www.youtube.com/embed/oTJRivZTMLs?rel=0
http://youtube.com/v/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/v/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/vi/oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/?v=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/?feature=channel&v=oTJRivZTMLs
http://youtube.com/?vi=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/watch?v=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel
http://youtube.com/watch?vi=oTJRivZTMLs&feature=channel

Answer 4

This can get video id from any type of youtube links

var url= 'http://youtu.be/0zM3nApSvMg';
var urlsplit= url.split(/^.*(youtu.be\/|v\/|embed\/|watch\?|youtube.com\/user\/[^#]*#([^\/]*?\/)*)\??v?=?([^#\&\?]*).*/);
console.log(urlsplit[3]);

Answer 5

This definitely requires regex:

Copy into Ruby IRB:

var url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLqASIXrVbY"
var VID_REGEX = /(?:youtube(?:-nocookie)?\.com\/(?:[^\/\n\s]+\/\S+\/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)\/|\S*?[?&]v=)|youtu\.be\/)([a-zA-Z0-9_-]{11})/
url.match(VID_REGEX)[1]

See for all test cases: https://gist.github.com/blairanderson/b264a15a8faaac9c6318

Answer 6

Try this one -

function getYouTubeIdFromURL($url) 
{
  $pattern = '/(?:youtube.com/(?:[^/]+/.+/|(?:v|e(?:mbed)?)/|.*[?&]v=)|youtu.be/)([^"&?/ ]{11})/i';
  preg_match($pattern, $url, $matches);

  return isset($matches[1]) ? $matches[1] : false;
}